House Bill 121 ranks among the most extreme bathroom bans in the US, targeting adult trans people in public buildings.

Members of the conservative House Freedom Caucus are holding their fire despite Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) bucking their ...

House Speaker Mike Johnson clearly hopes to avoid the fate of his immediate predecessor, but the intraparty threats haven’t gone away.

Ever since Republicans took back control of the U.S. House in 2022, their biggest concern has been the unruly hard-right ...

The Laken Riley Act passed the House of Representatives on Tuesday afternoon, the first piece of federal legislation approved by the 119th Congress after the House agreed to its rules for the term.

But Johnson is also in trouble because many of the key votes ostensibly for him look more like votes for the Republican ...

The speaker will soon appoint a chairman for the Rules Committee. That will be one of his first, most important moves in the ...

A joint session of Congress is set to convene on Monday afternoon to certify President-elect Donald J. Trump’s victory in the 2024 election, performing a basic ritual of democracy that was brutally ...

The congressional joint session to count electoral votes is expected to be much less eventful than the certification four ...

Donald Trump and his GOP allies in Congress have recently shared some of the first details of their ambitious agenda — ...

House Speaker Mike Johnson appeared headed for defeat before two Republicans switched their vote, delivering him a majority.

The change offers some breathing room for Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) as he enters his first full term as speaker.